The Osceola times., 1887-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
csa0ilsl nSa VARIES SsarseA
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Syracuse. N. ", and wife Of ex -Presiden,
Andrew d. White, Of Cornell University,
fell dead after leaving the breakf asst
room ct her home Ia Ithaca, n Y, Of pa
ralysis Of the heart She was fifty seven
years old.
TsB Constitutional prohibitory amend.
ment was defeated In the Massachusetts
House on the Sth by vote Of i39 to ~
not the necessary two-thirds.
REPoRrs from Berlin are 10 the effect
that the German Emperor's health is be-
coming alarmingly feeble.
GEoRoE J. GOULD. having recently been
elected president Of tho Pacific Mail Is
the Youngest man that ever held so i'm
portant an office. II is novelty in Wall
street 10 see u man Of twenty-five at the
head Of a corporation OF $40, ,00,0o0.
CuARLEs ID. KERr, editor Of the Wal
Street Ne'os, died on the morning Of the 9th
at Long Branch, M.
TnE Earl OF Winchelsca and Noting
ham died on the Oh. He was seventy.
two years old.
2 The yacht Atalanta with Jay Gould on
board sailed from Fortress Monroe, Va,
on the 10th.
THs Grant Monument Association has
issued 4 circular calling for designs for a
monument or memorial building TO be
erected upon the site Of General Grants
tomb.
Hon. JouS H. EwISo died at his resi-
dence In Washington. Pa, on the 9th, aged
ninety years. Major Ewing was an uncle
Of James @. Blaine, and the Oldest citizen
OF the town.
AARoS L. 6rTM, one OF the best known
colored men in Pennsylvania, died at
Reading on the 9th, aged seventy-seven
years. He was prominent in slavery days
~ one Of the underground railroad"
leaders In assisting fugitive slaves TO es-
cape.
TIE statement that mike Grace" who
was reported killed by Apaches In re-
cent dispatch from Tucson, Arii., was
Mr.. Michael T. Grace, brother Of ex- x-Mayor
Grace, OF New York, is not true. AT the
office Of w. X Grace a. Go. It Ia stated
that Mr.. Michael p. Grace is now in Eu-
rope.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, J. J. Astor aud
d. w. James, the banker, have each sub
scribcd 500 900 to the fund for the erec-
tion Of great Episcopal cathedral in New
York.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has an
nounced that he will give a hearing on
the 18th and 18th inst, TO persons inter-
ested Ia the classification OF Sumatra
iesf tobacco, and on the 23l instant TO
persons interested in the classification Of
iron wire rods.
CORRESPONDENCE Of Secretary Bayard
and Minister West regarding assisted
Irish immigration, has been made pu blc.
EBES OLIVER, who jumped from train
near Atchison, Kas., a month ago, has
been found in the woods, crazy and almost
dead
Ar Annapolis, Nd, on the evening Of
the 10th, Secretary Whitney presented
each Of the forty-four Naval Academy
graduates with his diploma. commencing
with Cadet Stocker, the honor man.
JuDoK LAWRENCE, In the New York Su-
preme Court on the 10th, gave decision
in the test cases ofthe hotel-kecpers, hold
ing that they could not sell liquor to their
guests with meals on Sunday.
THR Secretary Of the Interior has dis
barred Jefferson H. Foxworth, Of Lincoln,
Neb., from practice before the Interior
Department
TEE Postmaster. General has issued an
order TO the postmaster at Chicago to de-
liver no more registered letters to the
Chicago Form Journal, and cash no more
money orders for It,
IT 10 officially announced at Berlin that
Emperor William, In consequence Of an
abdominal cramp, has been confined tc
his bed for the last few days. He is also
suffering from catarrhal affection OF the
eyelids.
Hem LALASoE, o member Of the Ger
man Rei chstag, from Mullhausen circle
was order ed on the 10th to leave Alsact
within twenty-four hours. Herr Lalancs
10 an active protector, and is charged
with having su pported the French Patri
otic League.
THn Consul-General at Havana has re
ported To the State Department thai
Publa, the American citizen imprisoned
at that place, will be tried in the Superior
Court during the present month, the tria
being hastene ed on account Of the inter
cession Of this Government
UNITED STATES CONSUL CAMPBELL ha,
reported to the State Department his ar
rival and reception at his post Of duty
Tamative, Madagascar, and the presenta
tion to him Of bullock, six chickens an,
three geese, with the compliments Of Hci
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen o.
Madagascar, this being her usual present
TO friendly consuls.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, accompanied by
Colonel Lamont and Mrs. Lamont, re
turned TO Washington on the night of the
10th, arriving at nine O'Clock Mrs. Cleve-
land was not with the party, having sep
Arated from 1t at Albany to 60 to Oswc go,
N. T., and visit her friend, Miss Kings
ford, for week or two.
01NERAL SHERMAS has written sensi
ole lotter TO the Grand Army boys In re
aation 70 tho proposed visit of President
Cleveland to st. Louis, during the annua
encampment in September.
AGATHA ZEIs, proprietress of the mode
dsiries In Saxony, has accepted an invita-
tiou TO come TO America to assist German
aairymen to establish cheese factory.
THERE is . great deal of quiet appre
hensiou at the German capital and
throughout the Empire in regard to the
outcome Of the Crown Princes throat
trouble. his trip to London may bs
abandoned.
SBcRErARY TREASURER PAsoor, of tn,
International biographical Union. has
resigned, and IT is rumored that he 1.
short In his accounts.
WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, d. D., LII
D., Bishop Of the diocese Of Pennsylvania
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church, dice
At his residence in Philadelphia on tn,
l1th, sged seventy-two years.
BRI0ADrKR-GESERALM MERRITT assumes
command Of the Department of the Mis-
souri Julyl He will be succeeded in the
superintendency Of West Point by Gen
eral Parkc.
ADvicEs from Sidney, N. s. W., re
ceived by the steamship Alamenda at Sar
Francisco on the lith, announced the
death Of William Z. Sheridan, the Ameri
can tragedian.
WILLIAM H. MALoSEr, reading clerk for
the New York Board Of Aldermen in 1854
10 oaid to have turned States eviiencc